Machine for cleansing kitchen utensils



May 4 1926. I 1,583,305

' v J. NEHL MACHINE FOR CLEANING KITCHEN UTENSILS' I Filed Apfil 14, 1925,

517103303 v J Java-11101 74374).

Patented May 4, 1926.

{UNITED STATES JOHANN NEHL, 0F GOLOGNE-SULZ, GERMANY.

MACHINE FOR CLEANSING KITCHEN UTENSILS.

Application filed April 14 To all whom it may concern: I Be it known that I, JOIIANN Nnnn, a cith zen of the German Republic, residing at Cologne-Sulz, De Noel Platz 7, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Cleansing Kitchen Utensils, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for 1925. Serial No. 22,953.

drawing. At short intervals upon this chain a are placed small baskets 0 preferably in cient size so as to accommodate a single plate, cup or the like.

The chain may be driven by any one of the sprock et/wlrels 1) shown in Figure 1 from cleansing or washing of dishes, platesgw/anf suitable source of power, not shown.

cups and similar articles. With the e mao Figure 1 an article to be cleaned is placed in chines the table-u tensils zfl packed into baskets, which are hanging on endless chains. By means of these chains the baskets are drawn through two tanks, the first of them serves for soaking the grease anddirt and precleansing the dishes, whereas the second serves to wash the table utensils or the like full and cleanly. The machines known up baskets, but this has the disadvantage that every piece of the kitchen-utensils is not thoroughly rinsed and cleaned. There are machines at present known, having baskets hanging from endless carriers, but these machilnes cause much waste of time and materia The invention consists in providing carriers for the articles to becleansed on the outside of the chain, which are adapted each' to receive one single piece. The putting up I,

as well as the unpacking of the kitchen uteri The baskets pass through the tank It 1n the sils is done during the working of the machine. vBy so doing the kitchen utensils are rinsed totally and thoroughly whilst the machine is running continuously.

Withthese and other objects in View, the invention consists in the construction, ar-. rangement and combination of the various parts of my device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed outin my claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: v

Figure 1 shows a cross section of the machine, and

Figure 2 shows a part of the chain with two baskets for carrying the kitchen utens1 s.

Similar reference, characters are used to indicate similar parts throughout in the sevoral views.

The chain a is of the endless type and is guided over sprocket wheels or rolls 6 in the manner shown clearly in Figure 1 of the As the baskets pass the point (Z shown in a basket 0 while the chain is continuously operated. The basket containing the article to be cleaned then passes downward into the cleansing liquid in the pre-washing tank 6. It then passes horizontally towards the right as shown in Figure 1 and close to the bottom of the tank e until it again moves upward at the extreme right of the tank 0 and emerges from the liquid.

Immediately upon leaving the liquid it is subjected to a powerful spray upon all sides. The pump f placed between the two tanks draws water from the tank e and forcesit under pressure into the spraying device. 1

.Upon leaving the spraying device the baskets are carried upward by the chain so as to clear the partition dividing the two tanks and is. then carried horizontally over the partition and then downward in to the second tank 71. containing acleansing liquid.

same manner that they 7 have previously passed through the tank e until they arrive at the point 9 shown in the drawings when the articles in the baskets are removed therefrom. p

The operation of the machine is believed to be clear from the above description. The" soiled dishes are first soaked in the liquid in tank 6 and the grease and other material are loosened therefrom. The dishes are then subjected to a powerful spray which thoroughly cleanses each individual dish or kitchen utensil due to the fact that the water or other cleansing liquid is enabled to come in contact with every part of it. From the spray it is carried for a final cleansing bath to the tank It. By the above system every article-of kitchen utensil will be thor- Q intention to cover by-the following claim,

any modified forms of structure or use of equivalents, which may be reasonably included Withintheir scope.

I claim In an automatic dish washing or cleansing machine, two tanks positioned adjoining one another containing cleansing liquid, a pump drawing liquid from one of said tanks,

a spraying device connected to said pump 10 carried by said chain through said tanks and 15 past said spraying device.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature JOHANN NEHL. 

